Yet another variant spelling of budgerigar, showing the variety of ways colonial naturalists attempted to write the Aboriginal Australian term.
One more of the many orthographic variations of the Dharug word budgerigar, demonstrating how the same borrowed word acquired multiple competing spellings before standardization.
Comparing all the budgerigar spelling variants across historical texts is like watching the English language try on different hats—each version reveals different colonists' assumptions about pronunciation and familiar English sound patterns!
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